Well, come stand a little bit closer
Breathe in and get a bit higher
You'll never know what hit you
When I get to you
another @shepherds-of-haven pairing, as painted by the lovely and talented @serahlink! 🥺🥰 the game's own Chase Trinaeste and my own darling Fayne Uvana (xe/xem pronouns), who will almost certainly be breaking the rules about fraternization very shortly now :)
please consider commissioning Link if you're looking for art! he's wonderfully talented, and the money helps him and his family stay afloat in tough times :)
My HCs for the Netherworld River of Oblivion (WàngChuan 忘川) and Bridge of Helplessness (NàiHé 奈何橋).
It can be taken literally or figuratively. DFS saving LLH's life in extremis
Or tracking him into the Netherworld to drag him back...unless it's to follow him to the other side.
It's about how love can lead one to the Heavens as well as into Hells willingly, with a reference to Kurukullā (and possibly Rāgarāja, both known to transform worldly lust into spiritual awakening).
*Title comes from the MînNán/HokKien song 蓮花空行身染愛 by the really cool Taiwanese band 珂拉琦 Collage.
Flowers bloom in your house • I wanted to leave with you • the sentimental rain wets my eyes [...] • Days after days • I can't let go of anything about you • turning to search for who I've been • I realise that I've forgotten my own name • I've been wandering with you willingly • at the end of that long path the sky is filled with flowers • In the mist clarity hits • thousand years roaming your world • in delusion of my love reciprocated • I've chosen my own hell before my eyes • In the mortal realm, above and under, evildoers please back off • In this flourishing world all livings feel • feelings feed distress but the suffering is voluntary • my heart burning mad knew the anguish to come • Ten thousand mistakes are mine and have nothing to do with you.
Juniper Journal’s Vol. 2, 6.8.24
“Glad for Education"
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Season of Ceremonies
Passing onward and upward
Joining and parting of matrimonies
Well past the year split into thirds
Orion fled the heat of the night
Barely now, I hear the morn nor evening song of birds
Graduation and vacations alight
Brighter than starry skies, hopeful
Beaming youth abroad, flight
Laughter through the fence line
Good neighbor what whispers
Do you hang upon the breezy clothesline
Harries by spurs
To flee this aging town
Sinking into its own incurs(ion)
Moving from small town to loud soun(d)
Making way for new places
Bigger and better and bustling and frown(a)
How many more vacant faces
Vacant lots and empty unthreaded plots
Have we lost the story to this town, taken for its paces?
Why do the young run so free of knots
That tether down the older masses
Chained to machines pulling lottery lever slots
It just takes one wrong move and you’re done with classes
Learning’s done, no more, and you’re done for
Good riddance to the knowledge, that you’ve acquired behind glasses
It takes passes at your lore
All that learned knowledge
That you spent years to learn, adore
Soon you will be long gone from this hedge
Taller than it was when you were small
Strike the match and do not skirt the edge
Season of the passing time to call
No more chips to bet at all
Stack them up on higher, never ever die, or you will surely crash and fall
If you make it from this town on all fours as you try to crawl
Soon you will be walking
Soon you will be talking, overcoming every wall
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AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! YáoYao airdropped a new song!!!!!! Pardon my terrible edit, I needed to share it right away.
Edit: Done retranscripting the lyrics since they aren't available yet. Savage translations added!!
Lyrics: 車帥 - Music: 葉立龍
最好的就是今天
更好的在後面
只要一直在路上
滄海變桑田
當未來登場的時候
會是什麼情節
是科幻電影
還是童話世界
把時光倒回某年某月
就會發覺
未來早已赴約
只是我的腳步慢了些
慢了些
掂掂父輩留下的家業
耗盡多少心血要開天闢地
還要戰勝一切
看神州來到新的時代
不難理解最好的重重疊疊
再翻開復興的一頁
最好的就是今天
更好的在後面
只要一直在路上
滄海變桑田
最好的就是今天
更好的在後面
只要一直在路上
滄海變桑田
最好的就是今天
掂掂父輩留下的家業
耗盡多少心血要開天闢地
還要戰勝一切
看神州來到新的時代
不難理解最好的重重疊疊
再翻開復興的一頁
Savage translations, beware! 😅
The best is today. Even better is yet to come. As long as we remain on the path, the blue sea will turn into mulberry fields (= the world is ever changing).
When the Future shows up, what will it be, a Scifi movie or a fairytale world?
Turning back time to a certain month of a certain year. I'll realise the Future was already attending the rendezvous. My footsteps were just a little slower, a little slower.
Weighing the assets bequeathed by our elders who worked so hard to to split heaven and earth apart (= pioneering) and vanquish everything and looking at the new era for our country, it's easy to see the many layers of bests and turn another page of revival/renewal.